Content Note: This blog post contains a discussion of eating disorders. On Tuesday, February 8, 2022. the Dickinson community welcomed Jason Nagata, an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to provide a lecture entitled “Boys, Biceps, and Body Image.” Professor Nagata joined us via Zoom; his presentation was screened…
Women and people of color are often accused of “playing the race card” and pandering to certain audiences. But what does it look like when straight, cisgender, white men play “the man card”? What are the implications of playing into traditional ideas about masculinity? I recently participated in the facilitated discussion on The Man Card…
Released prior to the 2020 election and available through the library’s subscription to Kanopy, The Man Card: White Male Identity Politics From Nixon to Trump (dir. Peter Hutchison and Lucas Sabean, 2020, 55 minutes), a new film from the Media Education Foundation, makes a compelling argument that Donald Trump’s election to the Presidency in 2016…